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will nOt Ask the Trustees.
A COMMITTEES OF CoLoREp CITIZENS PREFER TO 90 TO
THE PRESIDENT.

THE PRESIDENT.
A meeting OF eolored citizens was held last even
Ing at the Israel church for the purpose OF hearing
the report OF the committee appointed at the last
meeting to wait upon the District Commissioners
and present the protest OF the coiored citizens
against the use OF the building at the corner OF
Maryland avenue and ~ street for the colored
public schools. The committee reported that the
In response 10 the protest presented
Dy tne ~, a az Inat an appeal Dc m de to
ton Ia the selection Ut this building be recOnsid-
cred After discussion upon this report the meet
Commissioners had maintained that they .shad en-
tire control OF the management OF the public
SCHOOLS, and that the trustees were simply their
agents In the performance OF such delegated powers
and duties as might from time TO time be conferred
upon them by the Commissioners; that we deem
the reference OF petition to a body OF subordi-
mates Incompetent legally 10 act as highly detri
mental 70 our rights and best interests as citizens
OF this District; that we viii, In case OF declina-
In behalf OF the morals Of the public Schools and
the lawful disbursement OF the public school
funds. 10 petition the President OF the United
states for redress"
HELD FOB THE GRAND JUKY.-In the Police Court
this morning, In the case OF Walter Snowden, COL
ored, charged with assault and battery with in
tent 10 Kill Sarah Boyd, also colOred, the defend
ants counsel Mr.. I. c. Taylor, waived an exam
nation, and the case was sent to the grand jury
bonds being liked at $500. The defendant it Is
alleged visited the house OF his cousin, Sarah
Boyd in Shepherds alley, and when she refused TO
accept proposition made by him, choked her and
stabbed her IN the breast with knife.
How SOME PEOPLE GET HURr-Dudley Thomas
q young colored man, was In the Police Court to.
day. charged with using profane language and
assaultinX Officer Rogers while under arrest He
exhibited cut on the top OF his head which he
said was Inflicted by the officer with his club
The of1icer testified that when he arrested the de-
PENDANT the latter refused TO go and wanted to
Tight. He struck witness several times. The de-
PENDANT denied the story told by the Officer and
said that the latter struck him for nothing. Ofcer
keidy testified that he saw Or1cer Rodgers and
the deiendant clinched, but saw no blows passed
The Judge said that great many persons get hurt
through their own obStinacy In not yielding TO
police Officers when arrested He imposed a fine
OF $40 or thirty days for the profanity and sus-
pended the assault case.
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KILLED BY HAmPrN.-Mrs Sarah Robertson,
aged nfty-six years, OF No. 81 sherman avenue,
jersey CITY, died from lockjaw "Wednesday night,
and was buried yesterday. About ten days ago
Ms. robertson TELL down stairs, and received In
the fall slight wound In the head made by hair
pin piercing the scalp. Tuesday evening, when
attempting 10 address her daughter she was I'M
able 70 open her mouth. DIR. Henry WAS immedl-
ately called, and he pronounced the case one Of
locklaw, resulting from the injuries received In
the TALL